Lover and More: the Toni Wolff Story

a lecture by Lucy Sikes
hosted by the C.G. Jung Society of Colorado

What does Toni Wolff have in common with Madam Curie? With Georgia O’Keeffe?  During an informative evening, participants will learn recently published secrets about the life of early Jungian analyst, Toni Wolff. Are these actually secrets?  When the book Four Eternal Women: Toni Wolff Revisited—A Study in Opposites (Mary Dian Molton and Lucy Anne Sikes) went to press in  early 2011, no authoritative biography of Toni Wolff had been published. There were some chapters on her in other books, but they did not have the breadth or depth of research that Molton and Sikes have accomplished.

For too long, Toni Wolff’s contributions were kept in shadow. The open secret of her relationship with C.G. Jung was generally known but not discussed at the first Jung Institute. This lecture will present Toni Wolff’s story. At the same time her unique contribution of Feminine Typology, as well as her contributions to Jung’s typology, will be presented in vivid stories.

Lucy Anne Sikes, MS, ARNP, is a senior Diplomate Jungian Analyst. After attending the University of Arizona, Tucson, she moved to Denver to pursue her profession as a Psychiatric Nurse Specialist. During this time, she entered analytic training with the Denver group of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysis. She is currently in private practice in Prairie Village, Kansas. Her first book, co-authored with Mary Dian Molton, is Four Eternal Women: Toni Wolff Revisited-A Study in Opposites.

Date & Time: March 30th, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Location: First Divine Science Church, 14th Ave. and Williams St. Denver, CO, 80292
Cost: free to members, $15 at the door, $10 students and seniors

For more information contact:
C.G. Jung Society of Colorado
1776 S. Jackson #203,
Denver, CO 80210
303-575-1055
email: info@jungsocietyofcolorado.org

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Four Eternal Women: 
Toni Wolff Revisited - A Study In Opposites
By Mary Dian Molton and Lucy Anne Sikes
ISBN 978-1-926715-31-5
320 pages, Bibliography, Index

Toni Wolff was at first the patient, and later the friend, mistress for a time, long-term colleague and personal analyst of Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung.

In addition to her work as the founder, leader and teacher for the Psychological Society in Zurich which led to the establishment of the world-renowned C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich/Kusnacht, she published a seminal but little known work called “Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche” (“Der Psychologie”, Berne, 1951). This treatise, certainly one of the first studies in Analytical Psychology, has been the subject of the authors’ investigation, attention, research and study for the past twelve years. Toni Wolff’s original outline of her four archetypes barely filled fifteen pages of the journal, and was written in the academic style of professional journals of that period, sans illustration or commentary.

Toni Wolff circa 1920's

While Wolff’s work has been mentioned in short form in the work of several writers, Four Eternal Women is the first full and serious archetypal delineation of her original thesis, and examines each of her four feminine archetypes from several perspectives:

•  Wolff's Own Words
•  An Overview of History and Myth
•  Familiar Characteristics
•  Lesser known (Shadow) Possibilities
•  Career Inclinations
•  Relationships to Men
•  Relationships to Children
•  Relationships to Each of the Other Types

The tension of the opposites set up by Wolff’s own diagrammatic representation of these archetypes provided an additional dynamic to this study. Those who have followed Jung’s individuation path will recognize aspects of Jung’s Transcendent Function. All readers may well become personally sensitized to discover their own type preferences, and how some aspects of shadow may be present in their ‘opposite’ partner.

About the Authors

Lucy Anne Sikes, MS, ARNP, is a Senior Diplomate Jungian Analyst and is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner. She is in private practice of Analysis and Psychotherapy in Prairie Village, Kansas, close to Overland Park, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. She currently serves as a lecturer in Jungian Theory and Practice and is past Coordinator for the Kansas City - St Louis Training Seminar of the InterRegional Society of Jungian Analysts.

After her retirement in 1983 from a full career as an educator and later an executive for the Public Broadcasting System, Mary Dian Molton began her Jungian studies and took an advanced degree in clinical social work. She has studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, has trained extensively in psychodrama, and has worked as a Jungian psychotherapist since 1987. She also holds a BFA in Fine Arts, and an MS Ed. with a specialization in Secondary Theater Education. For several years she wrote, produced and chaired a weekly television series which showcased creative teaching.

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